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>> the president is planning to go to hawaii with his family. the family is going to be heading there soon and he isn't getting on a plane any time soon. he could stay all through weekend. if possible he could wait through monday and eric cantor threatened that today. he said "we might stay here all weekend." the senate is intending to come back next thursday and deal with it then. >> the critical point here is will john baner be willing to bring up a bill in the house that's a compromise that may require more democratic votes than republican votes? that is anathema to him, but it may be the only way out of thiss me. >> brown: norm ornstein, christina bellantoni, thanks so much. >> suarez: still to come on the "newshour": targeting pakistan's polio eradication workers; state department security failures; the pros and cons of saving versus spending and north dakota's senator elect. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: amid the fiscal cliff fight, members of the house and senate paid final respects today t
>> the president is planning to go to hawaii with his family. the family is going to be heading there soon and he isn't getting on a plane any time soon. he could stay all through weekend. if possible he could wait through monday and eric cantor threatened that today. he said "we might stay here all weekend." the senate is intending to come back next thursday and deal with it then. >> the critical point here is will john baner be willing to bring up a bill in the house...
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he came out of hawaii, sohis's this laid back aspect to it. you didn't see any of the political part of him at all in high school or college compared to bill clinton who was running for office in high school his principal got sick of it. obama was playing pass ket ball and smoking pot. even in playing basketball he thought he was better than he was. he thought he was a starter. he was really the nice guy on the team. that's satisfied got him to the white house. it's anssential prtofho he is and it came out of him actually just the opposite of clinton. barack obama spent 10 years of his early life trying to figure himself out. all of the contradiction tion that the world through at him. all of his internal contra did i goes from the time he left hawaii at age 18 until law school at 28. introspective. that period gave him the satisfied to get to the white house and got him in trouble. >>charlie:and alsgave him the abity to write the book he didbecause he thought about who he was. >> in the way bill clinton never did. he was reinvent himself ever
he came out of hawaii, sohis's this laid back aspect to it. you didn't see any of the political part of him at all in high school or college compared to bill clinton who was running for office in high school his principal got sick of it. obama was playing pass ket ball and smoking pot. even in playing basketball he thought he was better than he was. he thought he was a starter. he was really the nice guy on the team. that's satisfied got him to the white house. it's anssential prtofho he is and...
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his parents meeting each other in a classroom at the university of hawaii. but so much of the book, david maraniss, is about his search for himself. for his identity. of course. and a lot of that is race. but that's not t whole thg. is it? >> no, it's not. his story is sort of a classic odyssey, an arc towards home. he starts really without a sense of home because he never knew his father. and his mother, as loving as she was and as much as she inculcated her philosophy of life into him, was also not there for large stretches of his adolescence and teen-aged years. so you see him not only trying to figure himself out as a bi-racial kid from hawaii, but also trying to find his place personally in the world. it takes him from the island of hawaii to los angele to new york and finally he finds himself personally in chicago on the south side. so michelle robinson, who is not even in this book, is kind of the magnet you see drawing him all the way along. >> woodruff: you also write about there's this recurring theme of avoiding life's traps. even when he was a yo
his parents meeting each other in a classroom at the university of hawaii. but so much of the book, david maraniss, is about his search for himself. for his identity. of course. and a lot of that is race. but that's not t whole thg. is it? >> no, it's not. his story is sort of a classic odyssey, an arc towards home. he starts really without a sense of home because he never knew his father. and his mother, as loving as she was and as much as she inculcated her philosophy of life into him,...
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and he said, "well, i'm from hawaii, but my father was kenyan. and his name was barack obama. and i go by barry so that i don't have to explain my name all the time, and go into a long exanation of myself." and so i said, "well, if your name is barack obama, i'm going to call you barack obama because i like that name. >> narrator: in the school's literary magazine, barry now identified himself as barack obama. >> i think the word "barack" is absolutely essential to that identity of being, "i am a man. i am a man with a future. i need to be prepared for whatever that is going to be. i don't know the answers yet. but i sure as heck know i won't get there if i hang out and take things for granted and just be kind of a smart guy." >> narrator: but barack was restless at occidental. he decided it was time to leave. he would transfer to columbia university in new york city. >> one day he told me he was transferring to columbia. he had, i think, a need for a more expansive environment, more stimulating urban environment to grow intellectually. so that was his choice. >> he needed to
and he said, "well, i'm from hawaii, but my father was kenyan. and his name was barack obama. and i go by barry so that i don't have to explain my name all the time, and go into a long exanation of myself." and so i said, "well, if your name is barack obama, i'm going to call you barack obama because i like that name. >> narrator: in the school's literary magazine, barry now identified himself as barack obama. >> i think the word "barack" is absolutely...
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american leaders past and present paid tribute today to the late senator daniel inouye of hawaii. a cwd filled the national cathedral in washington for the service honoring the japanese- american who became a war hero and served in the senate more than 50 years. president obama recalled watching inouye during the televised watergate hearings in 1973. >> to see this man, this senator, this powerful, accomplished person who was not a central cast. and the way he commanded the respect of an entire nation, i think it hinted to me what might beossible in my own life. >> sreenivasan: inouye died monday at the age of 88. a pre-christmas storm rumbled across the great lakes today, toward canada. the storm had closed roads and grounded more than 1,000 flights on thursday. but as conditions improved, chicago's o'hare international and other airports returned to normal for one of the busiest days of the year. elsewhere, parts of wisconsin, iowa, and michigan dug out from more than a foot of snow. the storm was blamed for at least nine deaths in half a dozen states. the day that some pegged a
american leaders past and present paid tribute today to the late senator daniel inouye of hawaii. a cwd filled the national cathedral in washington for the service honoring the japanese- american who became a war hero and served in the senate more than 50 years. president obama recalled watching inouye during the televised watergate hearings in 1973. >> to see this man, this senator, this powerful, accomplished person who was not a central cast. and the way he commanded the respect of an...
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. >> gerald ford in 1976 lost the election basically in southern ohio lost ohio by 11,000 votes and hawaii which 4,000. the next morning there was never any question about his conceding. >> woodruff: all these questions about whether a state should have been called in this instance we're talking about ohio. the television networks have projected ohio. it's also the associated press. it's my understanding there's a consensus the major news organizations about ohio. if it is the case that governor romney is not accepting that caulker that will be interesting because it's on that basis that these projections are, you know, have been made. >> maybe the person we should be talking to at this moment is not governor romney but the secretary of state of ohio. >> the governor or rob portman the senator. >> he's got a number of very close allies in the state of ohio. it may well be that they're giving him different information that the news organizations don't have. we're in the purely in the realm of speculation. we are continuing to watch these i think it's fair to say wildly happy pictures of the
. >> gerald ford in 1976 lost the election basically in southern ohio lost ohio by 11,000 votes and hawaii which 4,000. the next morning there was never any question about his conceding. >> woodruff: all these questions about whether a state should have been called in this instance we're talking about ohio. the television networks have projected ohio. it's also the associated press. it's my understanding there's a consensus the major news organizations about ohio. if it is the case...